Closed rhyswilkins closed 1 year ago
duplicate of #232
duplicate of https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/issues/232
Correction: this is actually a duplicate of https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/issues/572
@mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
has a minimum required Node.JS version of https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/blob/db01c0005514bbd0267344c418f9649faf49a5fd/package.json#L13
(there should have been a warning by NPM when you installed it).
I'd recommend installing a newer version of Node.JS. If you're running Ubuntu, snap
or the NodeSource apt
repo are generally what I'd recommend using to install Node.JS, so that you'll get automatic updates! The default node
that is in the Ubuntu repos is extremely outdated and security fixes are done "best effort" by the Ubuntu team, so it's not as good as the official Node.JS releases.
Yeah, that fixed it. I had Node v12. I uninstalled that, added the NodeSourc apt repo as described above, and reinstalled Node. I then had to upgrade npm
. After that, I ripped out the old config, and re-installed the mermaid
package. That pulled in all of the deps and everything, and it works now. Thank you.
Awesome to hear!
By the way, there is a engine-strict
configuration flag in NPM that will prevent installing packages that aren't compatible with the current Node.JS version. Honestly, I don't know why it's not the default value :shrug:, especially since Node.JS is a language that creates a new major release every 6 months, and even the LTS versions of Node.JS only last for about 2.5 years.
I installed using a local installation as follows:
% npm install @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
which seemed to complete OK. I then added/home/rhys/node_modules/.bin
to PATH, as that's where themmdc
command ended up.Then I run it as follows
% mmdc -h
I expected to see the help information for the![mmdc-crash-wsl](https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli/assets/31958930/22f0e6f7-8ab3-42e3-a589-728cee822e10)
mmdc
command. Instead, I get a crash, per the screenshot:This is on WSL. I'm using Windows 10, and Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
I've tried also asking it to generate a diagram, and that's the same.